Venue / McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date / 2013.12.21
Unsilent Night is an original work by Phil Kline, written specifically to be heard outdoors in the mouth of December. It takes the form of a street promenade in which the audience becomes the performer. There will be an in-situ distribution of one of four tracks in the form of a cassette, CD, or MP3. Together all four tracks comprise Unsilent Night. The fact that the participants play different “parts” simultaneously helps create the special sound of the piece. Participants have to carry their own amplifiers, speakers, or boom boxes, and simultaneously start playing the music. They then walk a carefully chosen route through their city’s streets, creating a unique mobile sound sculpture which is different from every listener’s perspective. The piece was so popular that it became an annual tradition, and then an international phenomenon, spreading across the USA and to other countries worldwide. Since 1992, Unsilent Night has been presented in over 50 cities and four continents, drawing crowds of up to 1,500 participants in cities like New York and San Francisco.
自1992起，《大聲平安夜》經已踏足了四大洋五十個城市，號召了1,500人的參與，它不單成為了美國本土的年度傳統，更帶來了一股國際風潮。來到12 月，原創者克萊恩將帶來他的《大聲平安夜》，把「聲音下寨」搖身一變成為聖誕前夕的限定街頭聲音試驗場。大會將會即場分派預先灌錄了不同樂章的CD、卡式 錄音帶以及可供下載的MP3，觀眾只要自行攜帶擴音器、揚聲器或音箱，樂章即可合拼為一首完整的《大聲平安夜》。加上事先編配的聲音路徑，觀眾不單樂在其 中，更可以隨路徑創作出別樹一格的聲音雕塑，方方面面衝擊身邊的每一個你我他和她。
Venue / McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date / 2013.12.21
Unsilent Night is an original work by Phil Kline, written specifically to be heard outdoors in the mouth of December. It takes the form of a street promenade in which the audience becomes the performer. There will be an in-situ distribution of one of four tracks in the form of a cassette, CD, or MP3. Together all four tracks comprise Unsilent Night. The fact that the participants play different “parts” simultaneously helps create the special sound of the piece. Participants have to carry their own amplifiers, speakers, or boom boxes, and simultaneously start playing the music. They then walk a carefully chosen route through their city’s streets, creating a unique mobile sound sculpture which is different from every listener’s perspective. The piece was so popular that it became an annual tradition, and then an international phenomenon, spreading across the USA and to other countries worldwide. Since 1992, Unsilent Night has been presented in over 50 cities and four continents, drawing crowds of up to 1,500 participants in cities like New York and San Francisco.